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ConstraintCognitive automation2024-05-02
Wizards of the Coast requires artists contributing to Magic and Dungeons & Dragons to refrain from using generative AI tools to create final products
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Event date / reported
2024-05-02
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Commissioned art for published products
Creating final art for cards, books and games that a publisher commissions.
Still human-led✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
A game publisher's policy for commissioned work. The FAQ says it requires artists, writers and creatives contributing to the Magic TCG and the D&D TTRPG to refrain from using AI generative tools to create final Magic or D&D products, and, in a passage added 12 June 2024, that it is investing in a pilot with an AI detection platform. It is one commissioner's rule for its own products; the company is the buyer of this art.
What this means
A buyer of illustration writes human-made art into its terms, and pays to check it. For artists working for such publishers, the market itself excludes generated finals.
What it does not yet show
One publisher's policy for its own products; other commissioners differ.
What you can check
Open Wizards of the Coast's "Generative AI art FAQ" on the D&D support site and find "refrain from using AI generative tools".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Wizards of the Coast — Generative AI art FAQ (Dungeons & Dragons support site, created May 2, 2024; last edited June 18, 2025) · verified 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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